Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-27
SABBATH NOTES.
FIRST N. z. CHURCH.

In the morning, the Rev. DIR. w. b.
Edwards, of Baltimore, former pastor of
this church filled the pulpit and preached
an impressive discourse TO a large congre
CATION, from the words-"For our con
versation is in heaven &c" lie spoke of
the conduct BETTING a christian and also
OF the privileges of a christian Attic
the DIR. was announced as being in con-
siderable pain yet the forcible and i'm
pressiye manner Of his speaking kept the
attention of all fixed upon his discourse
and IL was pleasure TO hear him once
again. The singing was particularly fine
The Twilight service was largely at
tended last evening and was highly in
teresting. DIR. Huntley led the meeting.
The service opened with singing and
prayer, after which the meeting was
thrown open for short talks, scriptural
quotations, &c, The meeting was wide
awake, and one calculated to stir the PEG.
pie up.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The services at the Presbyterian church
were very instructive. The morning les.
sons being taken from Luke Is. 3D.
And the publican standing afar of
would not SO much as lift nd his eyes to
o
God be merciful to me, sinner" The
sermon throughout was an impressive
one. Theer was very good attend ance,
which gave an appreciative attention TO
to the words of the preacher.
THE YOUNG PEOPLES MEETING.
The young peoples meeting was led by
Mr.. VIM. b. Gardiner, Jr., at Is p. IN.
The meeting was heartily entered into by
those present. The scriptural reading was
from Romans, a chap. Mr.. George Nj.
Hyde leads the meeting next Sabbath
evening; and Mr.. ]. Duffy the Sabbath
following. These meetings have been of
much benefit to the church as well as the
partakers of them.
WESLEY CHAPEL.
The Rev. Mr. Shannon, pastor, filled
the pulpit of this church morning and
evening, preaching on both occasions inn
pressive sermons. At night he preached
from Rev. 10Th, 3: "And they sing the
song of Moses, the servant of God, and
song of the Lamb, saying, great and mar
vellous are the works, Lord God AL,
mighty; just and true are thy ways, thou
King of Saints In the outset of his SER
mon, he gave gentle but positive admo-
milton to those who always make it
point to enter church during the reading
of the scripture lesson, thereby interrupt
ing those present as well as making it an
noying to the preacher. He alluded to
the wonders of God creation in the ami.
NAL kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and
the celestial kingdom. After showing
from historical and scientific points of
view, the undeniable proofs of Gods ex.
istence he also referred to the answer of
the Mayor of Toronto, Canada, to Col.
Ingersoll, the we'll known infdel lecturer,
when he applied to him for the use of
public hall to deliver one of his infdel
lectures, to which he said: mo sir; if you
have no God in the United States, we
have one in Canada" The preacher said
he would to God there were more such
Mayors. Upon the importance of going
TO God before we undertake anything, he
cited the examples of Newton, Kepler
and others, the worlds great masters in
science. The sermon was one replete with
instruction throughout, and was listened
to with great interest by the large congre-
cation.